Onion-setter.



No. 726,972. PATENTED MAY 5, 1903.

. I. MoGOLLISTER.

f ONION SETTER. 1

APPLICATION FILED AUGiB, 1901. RENEWED HOV. 2 8, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES IPatented May 5, 1903.

IRVIN MCCOLLISTER, OF WILMINGTON, OHIO.

ON|ON-SETTER.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 726,972, dated May 5,1903.

Application'filed' August 5, 1901. Renewed November 28, 1902. Serial No.133,111. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRVIN MoOoLLIsTEn, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Wil-- mington, in the countyof Clinton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful GardenImplementviz., an onion-setter.

My inventioncomprises the features and cornbinationof parts hereinafterdescribed, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure l is a side elevationof the entire machine; Fig. 2, a top view ofthe machine; Fig. 3, a vertical section of a part of the machine withone-half of wheel 12, below described, removed; and Fig. 4. is a rearand side view pvt one of the carriers or hooks B, as shown in Theground-wheels 1 1, their axle 2, the side supports 3 3, joinedwith thebraces 4. 4 on the axle of'the roller at 5 5, and the handles 6 6constitute the framework of the imple ment. The axle 2 is encircled, butuntouched, by a cam-wheel 7, heldstationary by frame A. The track 8on-the cam-wheel 7 is raised between the points 9 Slot itsouter.

rim, with a gradual rise from '10 to 11, at which latter point there isan abrupt offset of one-half inch, continuing to the rise 9 9. Thecam-wheel 7 and track 8 are inclosed by a hollow and circular wheel 12,made in halves, one half of wheel 12not being:at-

tached to axle 2, but is cut out of sufficient circumference toadmit'the cam-wheel 7. The other half of wheel 12 is fitted on the axle2 at 13, halves bolted together at 14.14..

The inner surface of each half'of the wheel 12 is provided with a rim15, raised three-sixteenths of an inch, full, and the rim is dividedinto fifteen equal parts, with a space three-sixteenths of an inch wide,full, separating andbeing between every two parts of rim 15. The outerrim of each half of the wheel 12 contains fifteeunotches of an equaldistance apart, three-sixteenths of an inch square, conforming to thespaces in rim v 15, so that in fitting wheel 12 together the carriers orhooks will stand and be held in place, as shown by Fig. 3.

The carriers or hooks B are shown in rear and side View by Fig. 4, andFig. 3 shows them in position. The carriers or hooks B are of metal andthree-eighths of an inch square, intended to be held in position by thehalves of the wheel 12 when fitted together,

so that they can move easily up and down, but not turn.

16 is a roller on the end of the hook B.

17 is a spiral spring, and 18 is a hopper to containthe onion-sets,through which the carriers or hooks'B pass, as shown by Fig. 3.

The carriers 13 are made up of the radial stemshaving the hooks on theirouter ends. Starting, say, at point 10, the hook travels around thetrack 8, and as the track at this point begins to rise the prongs of thebook are forced outward farther and farther until it reaches thepoint11, when they are extended v.fronrthe'rim of the wheel 12 one inch. Asthe ,when released at the ofiset at point 11 the spring 17 forces thehook back on the track 8 at point 11, bringing the prongs of the hooksback to within three-eighths of an inch of the rim of the wheel 12. Thehook when extended, as above described, is passing through the bottom ofthe hopper 18, hooks extending upward, and the onion drops upon thehook, as shown by, Fig. 3. upward through the hopper, and when the hooksprings back to its place at point 11 the onion is fi-rmly held betweenthe hooks and the rim of the wheel 12, while the hook B travels on thetrack 8 around to point 9, where the prongs begin to point downward orinvert,

the onion is released and drops through the shoe 19 into the ground.

wheels, a series of carriers B havingthei'r hooked ends overlying theperipheral surface of the rotating wheel and carried bysaid' The onionis then carried wheel,said carriers having their stems extendingradially into the wheel, a cam within the ICO 2. In combination in anonion-setter, a rotating wheel 12, a framework and carrierwheels, aseries of carriers B having their hooked ends overlying the said wheel,said carriers having their stems extending radially into the wheel, acam within the wheel for operating the carriers as the wheel revolves, ahopper on one side of the wheel through which the hooked carriers passupwardly so that the seed can lie in the space between the hook and thesurface of the Wheel and a discharge-chute for the seed, the said wheelbeing formed in two parts with the stems of the carriers between saidparts, substantially as de scribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

IRVIN MCGOLLISTER.

Witnesses:

H. G. CARTWRIGHT, I. T. OARTWRIGHT.

